Global Compliance Investigation Services

The experience and methodology to help you get answers

The expert advisors with Global Compliance’s Ethical Leadership Group^TM (ELG)—including former Department of Justice attorneys, in-house counsel and Chief Compliance Officers—provide you with practical skills for investigating allegations of harassment, discrimination, fraud, theft and other legal and ethical violations.

Hundreds of organizations have turned to ELG, Global Compliance's in-house team of expert advisors, for guidance on how to properly investigate alleged employee misconduct. The United Nations selected ELG to consult on revisions to its ethics investigation procedures and to train staff in New York, the Congo and Sierra Leone on how to properly and effectively investigate such claims.

Global Compliance's experts are available to perform employee misconduct investigations around the world. While many such ethics and compliance investigations can be handled internally, organizations should consider using an outside investigator when the allegations:

• Involve a board member or high-ranking official within the organization.
• Require a sophisticated investigation that is beyond the experience and capabilities of your staff, including topics such as sexual assault in the workplace, embezzlement, Sarbanes-Oxley violations and workplace violence.
• Are very serious and litigation is expected.

Our experts will conduct an effective investigation and properly document its factual findings and conclusions, based on their unmatched experience in conducting investigations and training thousands of organizations how to effectively investigate alleged employee misconduct.  Large law firms turn to Global Compliance to conduct internal investigations on important cases or to seek our evaluation of the quality of their clients' investigations.

Our experts have helped organizations such as the United Nations establish and update policies and procedures for receiving and effectively investigating alleged employee misconduct. Among other things, Global Compliance will ensure that your policies and procedures:

• Encourage employees and others to raise concerns promptly
• Detail the ways in which people can make complaints
• Describe who will conduct investigations, which may vary depending on location, type of issue, role of the accused or other factors
• Provide a step-by-step structure for effectively interviewing witnesses
• Provide a structure for reaching a conclusion on whether the allegation is true
• Provide a structure for writing an effective and legally sufficient report
• Guide your staff on following up with the accused, the complainant and others after the conclusion of your investigation
• Detail where documents related to the investigation will be maintained

Utilizing our attorneys' extensive experience investigating and litigating alleged employee misconduct, we will ensure that your policies are not only well written and legally sufficient but also provide a structure for your organization to effectively gather information and reach a conclusion on whether the alleged misconduct has occurred.